On 9/22/2024 11:55, zeurkous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
While I find it annoying when running across an ftp url that the browser now tries to launch an external program, I have to admit, I can't remember the last time I used an actual ftp client. I've either used wget or firefox. The mirrors in all the lists have http/s support as well as FTP support. Other than the ftp command, I can't think of any software that does FTP that also doesn't do HTTP. But that's my experience.On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:51:02 -0500, Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Also we may want to drop the ftp urls, as the browser gods have=20 apparently declared them obsolete.While no-one has sufficient authority to issue such a binding declaration, FTP and WWW browsers have never been an entirely happy combination; for that reason, me'd have little objection to presenting the list entries in the more classic form of: some.host.dot:/some/dir/ (The trailing slash is optional.) --zeurkous.